Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-11-27
DAILY HERALD.
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
EDITED BY BELLE MEADE SMITH.
The Busy women I'm the Caiifor-
MIA Bank Building.


The Busy women I'm the Caiifor.
MIA Bank Building.
The California Bank Building, which
stands upon the corner OF Second and
Fort streets, is one Of the handsomest
edifices in Los Angeles. Its external
appearance is very imposing, its halls
and staircases are broad, and its rooms
are large and cheerful. The building
is equipped with an elevator which
seems to be in motion most of the
time. The first and second floors are
used by men and SO is
most of the third floor and part OF
the fourth. Upon the third floor, how
ever, are to be found Mrs. Meade, one
Of the most fashionable dressmakers
in this city, and Miss Mamie Short,
the elocutionist, who has so recently
come amongst us. Mrs. Meade, too,
is newcomer, but her position is
none the less assured. She COM
menced business in Los Angeles six
weeks ago, yet she is ru. he'd with
work and has a number of hands in
her employ. Miss Short also is meet
ing with considerable encouragement.
She has recently been SO favorably
mentioned by all the leading journals
that it is scarcely necessary to
speak of her; yet SO pleasant
is my remembrance OF the hour speht
il her parlors, that it is impossible for
me to pass her by in silence. Miss
Short is pupil Of Professor Lyman,
and in San Francisco and Stockton
she has been teaching elo ut on for
three years. Upon the fourth floor OF
the bank building the studio of Miss
Helen +. Coan is highly attractive
feature. Its walls are hung with her
own productions, while a number OF
models and several easels. before
which are seated the pupils of Miss
Coan. present an artistic aspect.
Miss Coan stud ed and worked in New
York until one year ago, when she
came to Los Angeles. She makes u
specially OF fruits and figures, but she
has among her collection an admira-
ble picture of the Wolfskill place be-
fore its attractions were swept away
by the march of improvement, and
true picture of Chinatown as it IS.
Her panel pictures OF clusters Of apples
and oranges are pretty, and her
heads, drawn from nature, are fine
particularly the heads Of Moorish
brigand and an Italian girl. Mrs. DR..
Button is another one of the busy
women to he found on the
fourth floor. She makes specially
of treating women and child en-,
and is deeply interested in her pro-
fession. The near neighbors of DIR.
Sutton are Miss Army, the modiste,
who is patronized by the most opulent
families in Los Angeles, and Mrs.
jirah Cole, who daily instructs class
in vocal music.
A. visit to the East-Side Pottery.
Tuesday morning, Mrs. NJ. l.. Peck,
another of the self-sustaining women
Who occupy apartments in the Bank
Bailling, invited me to accompany
her class to the East-side Pottery,
where she had arranged to give them
their first lesson in modelling in clay.
AT nine O'Clock, provided wi h lunches
and profusion Of natural flowers to
be used as designs, the class started
for East Los Angeles. At the pottery
we found the vases which had pre-
viousiy been ordered, and which Mr..
Nativel, the foreman OF the works,
had prepared with care, upon the Sec
ond floor of the MAN building. Here
the young ladies laid aside their
wraps and baskets, and, after SELECT
ing the vases best suited 10 their par
ticular tastes, commenced to model
into shapely leaves and flowers
the basinfull OF mud set before
them. The adobe clay, which IN
this locality is SO abundant, is admir-
ably qualified for the kind of work
Mrs, Peck's class expects to do, and
which they call decorating pottery,
after the fashion OF the Lamoge. The
materials thus used are inexpensive,
and the process is equally as simple.
Any one with moderate degree OF
good taste can learn it, and thereby he
enabled to fill their homes with OBJ
jects of beauty at a comparatively
small cost. Besides, The trip to the
pottery and a day given up to ere
atiye art, Of which many believe them
solves to be incapable, is sort OF
.,sa.sc t,hiah r,rnHIItn
a more eleyating kind # enjoyment
than picnics de yoted to pleasure alone.
LII London slum parties are popular,
and ia Paris sewer parties are all the
rage. Perhaps decorating parties will
become the vogue in Los Angeles.
THE POTTERY
Itself is quite a busy place. 1t is
mainly given up to the manufacture
observer vater-pipes and pottery in
general, but considerable attention is
devoted to D essed and terra-cotta
bricks, which have recently been in
troduced into the West. They are
large and hollow, and possess many
over the small, solid brick.
They do not crack in case OF fire and
NDcn useu lOf llOOIlIS tics bICah ttiC
heavy sound of the football upon the
ear. Both Mr.. Hamilton, the pro-
prietor and Mr.. Nativel, the foreman,
are anxious to have the ladies of Los
Angeles cultivate an interest in
artistic pottery, SO that whether work
ers in clay 20 to the + asst Side Pottery
in classes or alone, they are sure to be
assisted in their efforts.
The New store.
OF Mess's. Meyberg Brothers, how
ever, will doubtless do much for the
City of the Angels in this direction.
The store itself IS a glttering mass of
mantlepieces with open
Greplaces, vases, columns, decorated
china, clocks and bric-a-brac, while
che art room is nothing less than
fine exposition. In it, and arranged
in the most artistic manner, are to be
seen statuary and columns upon
y,b;ob stand the most dplicateiv